[R-pkg-devel] Advice on R-forge to Github migration

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 2:17 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks to everyone who commented.  A few replies inline:

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On 31/01/2021 1:21 p.m., Joshua Ulrich wrote:

  > I've moved history and issues from R-Forge to GitHub for half a dozen
  > R packages. I might be able to do this rgl. At minimum, I could help
  > you do it.

Thanks for the offer (and the more detailed one offline, where you
recommend cloning the repository rather than forking it).  Just for
future reference, could you tell me the benefits of cloning over forking?

We can discuss more offline, but at a high level:
   - if you fork my repo, mine is the head of the network graph
   - if you clone it and then push it to a repo in your account, yours
is the head of the network graph

Basically, I don't want your repo to be a fork of mine. That would
confuse users about where issues/PRs should be.  I plan to delete my
repo once you've loaded the copy to your account.